A/N: I don't own Kuroshitsuji
Title: Reminiscence of a Forgotten Lies
Genre: Drama, Mature, Smut, Psychological and Romance
Protagonist: 17-year-old Alois Trancy
Note: Liana means in Hebrew: My God Has Answered
Chapter 02: A twisted fairytale
Alois, Claude and the girl named Liana watches as the engulf flames covered the entire village below the hill. The orange haired girl glance at the chuckling young man as his evil cerulean eyes watches in amusement the burning village. Her beloved village.
Who is he? And why did he do these horrible things such as destroying a village? Liana parted her lips and thought about how he saved her life from that dirty old man. It shivered down her spine of the thought that bastard touching her body.
She clench the fabric that covered around her naked body. She towered above the tall young man again and taking a good look of him.
He had a feminine looks but very handsome. He had a luscious blond hair and piercing cerulean eyes. Those eyes are captivating yet intimidating while she staring it.
Alois noticed the girl beside him in dazed looking at him. He glance at her on the other side and grinned, "Can't help looking my gorgeous face?" he teased causing the girl to blushed in embarrassment.
"F-Forgive me of my incompetence. Milord. "She slightly bowed to him with formal taking a note that this young man before her is a noble.
He sighed and scratched the back of his blonde hair, "It's alright. And by the way…What is your name, girl?" The girl startled that this good-looking fellow asking her given name.
"Umm…My name is Liana Milton. I'm a daughter of the owner of a dairy farm." She introduced herself.
He raised a brow, her father is a milk maker? And her name is Liana; what a pretty name for a gorgeous girl like her.
"So…your family sells milk. That's it?" he questioned the blushing girl.
She nodded, "Yes. My father owned a barn that has five cows and two horses in it. And selling milk is our daily living until my mother died in illness when I was just a child and that father lost his interest on his business." A sad voice from the girl notices by Alois himself.
She continues, "One year later. My father remarried a villager and her daughter and till one day my father passed away. Since then, my stepmother and step sister are my current family now." She finished her story.
Alois mouth agape. This girl's life might compare to a children's fairytale. But he didn't believe in fairytales. They're all just a fiction.
"Is that so…then." Alois turned his attention at his butler. Claude revealed a beautiful dress to the young maiden, "You don't have to wear that when you go home." He pointed at the white cloth she wear when he gave it to the girl after been molested by a dirty old man earlier, "Just a precaution…I will lend you this dress." He smiled at her.
Just then, the girl wrapped her arms around the young man's chest making Alois a bit surprise. "Thank you. Milord." She sniffed and he realized that she was crying, "How can I repay your kindness." Repay? That's interesting. For once in his life, he had found a very interesting girl. Not only that she is pretty but her naïvety is intriguing.
His pale hand patted her head, "I'm going to tell you soon enough." A hint of evil tone didn't notices the girl. Liana hid behind the Trancy carriage to put on the clothes. She noticed that the dress is too tight but seem fitted on her size. She revealed her new attire to the two men and blushes but only toward the blonde earl. Alois didn't say anything and just smiled at her genuinely and she just fled towards the direction towards her house saying bit goodbye to these nice men who saved her.
His silence stopped as Claude approach his amusing young lord beside him, "Have you found an interesting pet? Your Highness?" He asked the chuckling young earl.
Alois licked his lips with his wet tongue, "Yes. I did. And we have to follow her. " An evil glint in his eyes, "That girl is mine." He said darkly.
Liana jumped from the fence in the middle of the night. A group of sheep noticed her presence but the girl silenced them with her index finger to her covered lips.
She sigh, this dress is too heavy and using a dagger left beside the sheep's fence. She tear -off half of the skirt below her calves so that she can walk freely without hemming the long skirt.
She finally reached the hut and slightly surprised that the door is unlock. She gulp and carefully opened the door and peeks the living room. To her astonishment, it's her step mother and her stepsister; Maggie sitting in the coffee table waiting for her.
The step sister glared at her, "About time you've got back. Liana." A venomous tone from her voice didn't go unnoticed from the orange haired girl.
Stepmother walked towards the uneasy young maiden and slapped her against the face causing the girl to be surprise, "Mrs. Walker said to me earlier…that you and her husband had an intimate affair. Is that true?" A hint of anger in her voice.
Liana parted her lips and was about to speak, "I…" but then, Maggie yank her wavy orange hair behind and smirk down at her, "So it's true then. You slept with him like some whore?" A glare from Liana's eyes shot her back, "No. I'm not submitting myself to that bastard. He forced me to do things with him. That's the truth! Believe me!" a hot tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Nonsense!" Her stepmother bark and walked to the kitchen utensils while her daughter beaten the poor girl's face and her stomach yelling at her. The girl cough blood from her mouth. She lowered her head and just stared at the wooden floor of the house.
"You're really such a shameful child. That's why your father left you too early." Her voice sound intimidating. The young maiden stared above her and froze seeing a butcher knife in her step mother's hands.
"W-What are you going to do to me?" She stuttered fearfully. Is she going to kill her?
A dark smirk spread on her stepmother's lips, "I heard from the other village area that group of people need fresh organs…" her maniacal eyes went wide causing Liana's heart to pause because of fear, "…I'm going to tear off your body and take those organs of yours and sell them in a high price. Don't worry, once you're dead. You will meet your bastard parents in heaven." She cackled maniacally and raise the butcher knife above the pitiful girl.
Liana ready herself and closed her eyes. SO that's it. She's going to die pitifully like this? After being raped by a dirty old man, being saved by a good-looking but kind earl and now…she's going to die at the hands of these bitches?
A loud shot coming from the window and her step sister screaming out her lungs.
"Mother!"
Liana opened her forest green eyes and froze in shock seeing her step mother laid down with pool of blood in the floor with a bullet mark hit her forehead. Her eyes went wide lifeless while releasing the butcher knife in her hand.
Her stepsister screamed hysterically and the orange haired maiden crawled back away from the bloody corpse. Her trembling body shaken with fear and shock.
Out of a sudden, the door opened revealed the stoic tall butler and the young earl beside him with a pistol in his right hand.
He blew off the smoke coming from the offensive weapon and entered the hut. He looked around the place only saw a shaken and screaming bitch beside her dead mother and a trembling young maiden he met behind the wall. There are cuts and new bruises around her forearms, neck and shoulders as well on her pretty face.
He sighed, "Fix this Claude. I don't want any witnesses alive." This froze Liana…so he came here to kill her?
Alois approach her trembling form and surprise that the dress he lend to her been all dirty and torn. Twitching. This girl is going to pay him a hundred pounds for that dress.
"Liana. I came here to get you." He told her with a serious tone.
The girl didn't say anything.
In annoyance; Alois forcibly pull her skinny arm. Liana glared at him, "Let go of me. You murderer!" She yelled.
Caught in surprise, Alois chuckled at her feisty attitude, "For your information. I saved your life from that old hag who wanted you dead." A frown pitches on her lips but suddenly realize what he'd just meant.
He saved her…again
She calm herself and buried against his chest, "Thank you." Tears forming down her cheeks once again, "Thank you. Milord." She sniffed.
The blonde earl wrapped his arm around her shoulders and whispers something in her ear, "From this onward. You're going to live with me." He turned to Claude and nod, "This time Claude. We are leaving this wretch place." Feeling in relief. Claude followed his master and the new girl outside leaving a mournful girl behind with her dead mother.
Traveling in a bumpy road is not quite easy. Alois and the girl beside him still silent these past few days in the carriage. Claude was on the opposite side of their seat still calm and stoic.
Alois glance at the silent girl beside him. He understands that she's on a verge of trauma because of those horrible situations she encounters.
The girl however, kept silent in this whole journey. What is she doing? Why did she agreed living with him in his mansion? She didn't know this person yet but why?
Could it be because he's her life saver and that she begun to trust him?
She sigh, after that incident. Where will she go? She had no other place to live other than her old house. Somehow, Maggie will curse her in the depths of hell of what she had done: Running away with her mother's murderer.
She can't believe that her very own step mother wishes her dead for the sake of money? That awful old woman wanted to sell her organs in a high price because of poverty. If the Lord of Trancy didn't arrive saving her then she's already done for.
"Sir. We have arrive in London."
Alois blink and turn his attention to the orange haired girl, "Liana. Wake up. We are now in London." He shook her shoulder.
The girl opened her eyes and stared behind the window. She was astound of the place; Tons of people with different faces and clothes, huge buildings and establishments, crowded streets with vehicles and smokes around the streets.
When she was a child. Her father told her about a huge city that called London and it's a fine place to live unlike in the rural areas they were living today. He told her that once he had all the money they needed. He, herself and her mother will go to London and live there forever.
Liana back then thought London as a paradise with clean surroundings and many nice people lived and that the place can provide them good benefits including a nice home, food, new clothes to wear and fresh water to drink.
But her good expectations in this place vanished as she witnesses it before her very eyes.
'A dirty city that filled with dirty people.' She thought.
Group of lewd women in the other side of the streets flirting a nobleman, a robber snatch a jewel from the jewelry shop and children being forced to work by an employer in a restaurant and cleaning shoes for the noblemen.
"How did you describe London?" Alois begun to ask the startling girl.
She averted her eyes, "It's…different." She replied.
He nodded, "London is not a good place to live especially to a village pretty girl like you." He smirks at her causing the girl to blush yet again.
"However…" he leaned himself beside the girl and cupped her chin to look at him, "If you live with my manor…things will be changed from this onward. You will be treated as a princess there and I will provide you luxurious life." His voice is manly but there's a hint of evilness in it. Liana was unsure about all these but he said that he will provide her wealth.
She blinked as the carriage getting darker. She realized that they're in the midst of woods that have tons of trees and bushes. She leaned against the carriage window still blushing of her contact with the earl but then it vanished when she saw a gigantic iron gates open. After few minutes, the carriage stopped in the concrete stairs of the manor.
The tall butler is the one who step down the carriage and gently open the carriage door, next, is the young earl as he offered her his hand.
"Liana Milton, I welcome you to the Trancy manor."
The girl accepted his hand and step down the carriage. She froze in shock of how wide, elegant and magnificent his mansion before her.
She was speechless. She can't believe that she was actually going to live here from now on.
Before them, Claude opens the main entrance to the two teenagers. Alois guide her inside his mansion with a wide dark smirk in his lips while the girl's attention was on the gigantic chandeliers, paintings and elegant structures of the mansion such as the wide staircase of the main hall entrance.
She looked from left to right of how elegant the vases, jars, small statues, furniture and the wide hall.
Alois chuckled at her expression and spoke, "What can you say about this place?" he asked her.
The girl blushes, "Lord Trancy, your home is very beautiful. I can't believe I'm actually going to live here." A hint of frown from his lips of the last part. Typical commoner
How come he forget? He's the one who ward her in his mansion meaning this girl is going to live in his place.
"But not for free." He thought amusingly. He had a perfect plan in his mind for this girl's future here.
The orange- haired girl however deep inside is very uncomfortable to her new lifestyle and she is very nervous. She can't believe that an aristocrat like Alois Trancy will let a village girl like her to stay in his beautiful mansion.
He saved her life and even let her stay in his mansion. She couldn't help but feel uneasy and upset. She wanted to do something to repay his kindness towards her even if in a little way. She will do anything for him.
A sound of clap from the young man attracts her, "Miss Milton. Shall we go to my office?" he motion to the staircase and the girl obediently follow him. Her hands were intertwining against her chest. She is still shy to him because he's a noble and the person who saved her life twice. She wanted to do something to him in return out of courtesy for everything he had done for her.
They stopped in a room and open his office. Liana awed of how wide his office that filled with arranged books and a single desk and chairs.
The young man sat on his very desk and eyed at the girl. "Sit down." The girl immediately nodded and sat at the opposite side of the desk. Her hands still intertwining due to nervousness.
He sighed, "Claude and the servants are going to prepare our breakfast in 10 minutes so let's get to know each other first." Liana surprise but this gives her a good opportunity to ask him many questions.
"Umm…Mister Alois Trancy…" the way she spoke his name is very alluring. "Why did you burn down my village?" She asked innocently.
Alois laughed. But the girl didn't understand what so funny about her question. "Because I find that place pathetic." A hint of venom in his voice making her flinch.
Pathetic? That doesn't make any sense to her.
She decided not to provoke this man before her. "Why did you save my life? What do you want from me?" She asked him the biggest question that she wishes to hear from this man.
A dark smile spread across in his lip, "I saved your life because I find you interesting. "
She blushes, "Interesting. Me?" her index finger pointed herself causing Alois to chuckle of her naïvety.
"Yes. You are interesting ever since I met you from the hill. I thought about keeping you by my side." His fingers drum and his other eye glance at the grandfather's clock.
He continues. "As what I have said earlier to you in the carriage. I can provide you anything and treating you like a princess like every other girls desires in your age." He stood from his seat and leaned his face against her causing the girl's cheeks heated in redness.
"But…As long as you are here. You will have to give me something...from you." She shivered as his hands were on her bare shoulder blades making her uncomfortable.
"You mean a payment? But I have no money."
Alois amused, this girl is really innocent.
"What I mean…my dear…Is that…" his breath tickles her left ear, "…I want your body as the rental payment in my home."
The girl's forest green eyes widen.
"My body?" Her mouth agape from what he'd just said.
Just then. The door opened as the Trancy butler bowed to the two teenagers. "Breakfast is serve. Your Highness and Miss." He told them.
Her stomach growls making the Trancy earl laughed. She blushed madly, ever since last night. She didn't eat anything.
He stopped and take the girl's hand. "You must be very hungry. Don't worry, this is your home. You can do whatever you like." He grinned at her.
She stunned of how many dishes been served before them. Alois is in the center while she is on the other side.
As Alois was about to slice his pancakes but he was interrupted by Liana's complain, "Lord Alois. How come we suppose to eat this entire food?" his cerulean eyes glared at the dishes been served to them by his unlikely servants.
He sighed, "Claude, Hannah. Fix this immediately." He said with a calm tone.
The butler and the maid nod as they take out few dishes that's not suppose to serve for breakfast.
Alois smirked at her common sense. "You're pretty smart for a village girl. I've beginning to interest you even more." He chewed the slice pancake in his mouth.
She blushed again from the earl's compliment on her. Knowing that she didn't use any knife or fork because of her status as a commoner; she didn't eat the delicious food even though she's really hungry.
Noticed that the girl didn't even touch her food, "Are you not going to eat?" He asked her. The girl shook her head, "I'm very sorry. Lord Trancy. It seems that me …being born in a rural area. Didn't know any table etiquette." She buried her head in shame.
Surprise at this. Alois moved his chair beside her and seem he enjoy seeing the girl's trembling form. He took the girl's knife and fork and slice the pancake. "Here. " A slice of pancake stab on a fork blushes the girl. She eyed at him and his handsome face were mere inch close to her, "Take it as a way a gentleman offered his service to a lady. It's a proper etiquette here in the high society." He lied.
The girl didn't understand what he'd just said and just gave up on his aid.
While she stared at his gorgeous eyes and his wonderful smile.
She couldn't help but to be captivated by him.
A/N: Please review!